I have never feared death
Even though
Its hands were more fragile
Than banality.
I dread, however, to die
In a land where
The grave digger’s wages
Exceed the price of human freedom.
Looking for,
Discovering,
Choosing freely,
And transforming one’s essence
Into a fortress.
If the price of death is higher than all that,
I deny, in absolute terms,
To have ever feared death.
A few random poems:
- Вероника Тушнова – Знаешь ли ты, что такое горе
- The Frantic by Mark Miller
- Виктор Гончаров – Когда тебя бессонной ночью
- Наталья Хрущева – Бабушка рыцаря
- Singer in the Prison, The. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Войны и голодухи натерпелися мы всласть
- Far In a Western Brookland poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Николай Заболоцкий – Испытание воли
- Dublinesque by Philip Larkin
- The Laws of God, The Laws of Man by A. E. Housman
- Николай Языков – Песня (Пусть свободны и легки)
- Breathing Stars, Inspiration and the Labyrinth of Correspondence
- The End by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sonet 54 by William Alexander
- The Devil Outwitted by William Somervile
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
